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...Sponsored by the Loewe Foundation, the fellowship hosts two writers a year, furnishing them with a flat, an office at the Casón del Buen Retiro (once the Buen Retiro palace’s ballroom, now an annex of the...
...“The result is that Russian security partners initially gain a sovereign capability . . ....
...The expansive social network of David Geovanis, a former banker he had known since Drexel, helped....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Security guards are posted at each of its street entrances (my taxi driver guesses the company has “something to do with the government”)....
...Security Research....
...“I started selling these things in 1977, when people aspired to understand social history through ceramics,” he says. But tastes and lifestyles moved on....
...Maybe some do — but others surely exert their power because, whether through physical strength or greater security in the workplace, they think they’ll get away with it....
...Its ruling Law and Justice party remains deeply regressive on social issues and it is hard to believe Poland would be welcoming to non-white refugees....
...Taiwan is an intensely politicised place, where women and other marginalised groups have been neglected to sustain a social order that often doesn’t serve them....
...“It’s a level up from the social platforms.”...
...Tech tools — VanMoof S5 and A5 Ahead of its introduction of the VanMoof V high-speed e-bike later this year, the Dutch company has unveiled new versions of its existing e-bikes today....
...China’s 380mn itinerant migrant workers are “periphery”, she says, which means they are the first to be laid off when companies are hit by downturns, a problem exacerbated by unequal access to social security...
...“We find an abandoned asset, we go in and take this enterprise under our security control, do a full inventory,” he said....
...“The topmost business families of India do not move without consulting good astrologers,” said Anupam V Kapil, an astrology columnist for the Times of India....
...The strikes destroyed the so-called ministry of security building in the city of Tiraspol on Monday, and on Tuesday hit two radio antennas in the town of Maiac that broadcast Russian programmes....
...Maybe they post something silly on social media, and you get location details.”...
...The Kremlin has said Putin, who took Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in the spring, is “absolutely healthy” and tested negative for the disease....
...“It’s a natural experiment: let’s see how Sputnik V really works,” Putin said....
...Feel free to drop me an email at sid.v@ft.com. Why does SEC chair Gary Gensler have a YouTube show?...
...We surprised the first year with the Social Security reform. We surprised a second year when we dropped it less....
...“There were threats to my digital and personal security,” says Fowler, who adds she now has four police crime reports to her name....
...He described himself as a “fiscal conservative with a social conscience”, which would put him in the majority with most Americans, but worried most that America had lost its “sense of shame” as a society...
...Meanwhile, the military leadership in Myanmar has drafted a draconian cyber security bill as thousands continue to protest across the country....
...(FT) What else we’re reading Joe Biden’s chance to end middle class stagnation Once every generation or so, America’s social contract changes....
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